Frank J. Tassone

Month: November 2019

  • #Haikai Challenge #115 (11/30/19): Advent #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga

    Thank you for celebrating your Thanksgiving, haijin. Congratulations to last week’s contributors: Haikai Challenge Participants 1. Jade Li/Lisa2. Dwight L. Roth3. Tessa4. Reena Saxena5. Indira 6. Peter7. Jane Dougherty8. Jules9. Xenia Tran10. Janice 11. Linda Lee Lyberg12. Kerfe Roig13. Frank J. Tassone14. Pat R15. Ken Gierke / rivrvlogr Powered by… Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets. Ultreya!…

  • Today’s Haiku (November 30, 2019)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): むささびや露天湯更けて湯気もなし　　　井沢正江 musasabi ya rotenyu fukete yuge mo nashi             flying squirrel—             an open-air hot spring at night             without steam                                                 Masae Izawa from “Nihon Dai-Saijiki” (“Japanese Comprehensive Saijiki”), edited by Shuoshi Mizuhara, Shuson Kato, and Kenkichi Yamamoto, published by Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan, 1981

  • Daily Haiku: Nov. 30, 2019

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: rereading old love letters the shifting shapes of clouds by Ben Moeller–Gaa (USA) Frogpond, 42:3, 2019

  • family gathers ~ senryū

    Originally posted on rivrvlogr: family gathers sharing a meal with shared hopes smiles as thanks abound This senryū is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge # 114: Thanksgiving. This also is linked to Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 155 #Theme-Thanksgiving. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Freedom from Want – Norman Rockwell

  • Mystery: a Gerry Muse #TankaProse

    11/30/2019: Gerry Muse #183 (mystery) Why do you draw closer? Did the fate of your forebearers mean nothing? I offer you only hardship and ruin. Snow covered trails, rockslides, scrambles and switch-backs: Only the insane attempt such ascents. Yes, I know you want to gaze out at the summit. Savor the Vista so few see.…

  • December, 2019

    Originally posted on Otata: From otata’s bookshelf: David Miller, Circle Square Triangle: fragments of an autobiography Romano Zeraschi, Poems Lost and Found Suffering from an onset of heartbreak, otata is unable to issue her 48th number. She extends her regrets and offers thanks to all who have contributed over the past four years. The email…

  • winter morning

    Originally posted on Haiku Gravy: sleepless nightscraping offthe thick frost

  • Haiga 129

    Originally posted on Michael Rehling: #Haiku Happenings #7: Michael Rehling’s #haiga #129! Michael Rehling View original post